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You have to understand a few things. First, iTunes has grown a ton over the years. It has some serious warts. For some reason the integrated stores are slow as hell despite displaying simple webpages. Navigation has gotten worse and feature after feature has been added to the left hand pane.

But by and large it works. It plays music, you can purchase music easily, it does a good job syncing my iPhone or my old iPod. That puts it head-and-shoulders above some manufacturer software for controlling hardware devices.

I'm also going to guess you're a Windows person. I promise you that iTunes ran much faster on my old G4 PowerBook than on my much more powerful P3 desktop I had at the same time. iTunes runs on Windows... and that's about all you can say. Apple wants it to look like the OS X version and it does, but they clearly don't care much about making it perform well.

As for Bonjour, it's actually very nice. When I open iTunes my iPhone shows up if it's on the network and they can sync. The button to play sound or video on my Apple TV shows up and with one click I've got playback on my home theater. It's been doing that since I got an Airport Express when they were released in 2004. It's amazingly simple and easy to use.

If it doesn't work, you're sort of up a creek as there is no way to know why the devices don't see each other, but that's quite rare. And Apple announced a total rewrite of iTunes during the iPhone 5 event, which is long over due. While iTunes works pretty well on OS X, it could certainly be better in many respects. I'm quite hopeful.

As for the reason the iTunes store is a web page, I'm sure that's so they can totally restyle it without having to push software updates. It's too bad because it's easily the slowest part of the application, and not having tabs means you can't open a few store pages to compare applications.
Looks like someone else has a very similar complaint:

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?forumID=206&threadID...
Well, these poor programmers who weren't very good sure knew a lot about how to make code worse! You're right though, it's a struggle to characterize people who know too much.
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I don't see how jobs for the sake of jobs is of real benefit to society. Just as programmers tend to automate away humans with small shells scripts (costs go down, reliability increases), a robot automating away inventory picking is a good thing (lower cost, vastly decreased chance of injuries, possibility of "dark" warehouses, 24-hour operation, etc)

Maybe I'm being very 1% here (despite not being even remotely near that income bracket), but I'd be perfectly happy to see machines replace humans in nearly all unskilled labor situations. If Amazon is ahead of the curve here, good for them - it's one of the reasons I own [a tiny amount of] AMZN stock. Getting people doing something that requires thinking because we've eliminated mindless work is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. That won't require everyone in the world have a four-year formal education; there are plenty of opportunities that don't require years of specialized training where you're not likely to be replaced by a couple of servos or a few lines of bash.
Hey. Congrats on shipping.. that's more than I have been capable of this year.

Lots of constructive things I want to point out. Don't think I'm bashing on the idea... (But you did post it as a Show HN so like most hackers I tried and find out how things work).

- I successfully created an account without paying. (Contact me through my email if you want details. You can find it in my profile).

- You write all of your clients details to disk. I can view them all here. http://learnmoreabout.it/ I can also overwrite other peoples tests. (Not sure if you are aware of this). (Could also be used as a very easy denial of service vector killing available inodes)

- Being able to access stuff like this is wrong. http://learnmoreabout.it/usr/share/base-passwd/group.master

- You have an active RAM disk which is readable through HTTP. I've been able to download and mount and read from it.

- You've got an SQL injectable page. (Took a while to find one, but it's there)

- You are doing validation that should be done on the server, via the client. (ie. Checking that the name doesn't contain invalid character.). So this ends up with people writing to directories they shouldn't. See the file directory 'thisShouldNotBeHere' within your web accessible /usr directory? http://learnmoreabout.it/usr/share/mysql-common/

I've uncovered way more information than I ever should have been able to (it was almost as fun as the Strip CTF). If you want any advice, I'm always infront of an email client... (and PHP is my main language)

You are definitely at a very early MVP stage, but already I'm reminded of this blog post from last week: http://blog.ryankearney.com/2012/10/never-give-your-informat...

And, in case anyone says I should have followed responsible disclosure, I prescribe to the same ideals as Silhouette in this comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619657
Fortunately the study you describe has already been run for us numerous times by willing celebrities and pro athletes with what seemed to them (and most of us) to be unlimited capital. I believe the net result for the principal was his dilution to a (1/2)^n share of original capital, where n is the number of these seed projects taken on.
It's probably not coincidence that the former environment I spoke of was also a government contract.

Government work is hard for the reasons you mentioned, and also because generally, contracting pays well enough to price you out of other markets.

My exit strategy was to find a government vendor (e.g., that makes products for government / enterprise consumption) vs. a government contractor. The services side of the house is still pretty much a suit-and-tie affair, though we pride ourselves on being much more meritocratic than our customers, but on the engineering side, pretty much anything goes.

The one thing I will say about gov contracting is that as a result, I interfaced with much more than would have been in my normal comfort zone, and I came away from it MUCH more knowledgeable than I would have had I not done it at all, and the work was very rewarding. My advice is to hold out for the good parts as long as you can while quietly looking for a way out that seems fulfilling.
That's where I think I'd be. Even if you ignore my investment in iOS apps over the last few years, I'd much rather go with Android because I know the platform is alive.

One of the other developers I work with bought a Windows 7.5 phone (used). He actually really likes the interface and says it works quite well. But he's looking to buy a used iPhone to replace it because there are so few apps available. That was the same thing that drove both my siblings off their Palm Pres - the app store was empty, with the exception of a few "demo" apps like Connect-4. Windows Phone 7.5 is doing much better than that, but it's a dead phone anyway with Windows Phone 8 coming out in the next month or so.
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> Plus, IE8 and IE9 are pretty compatible in that whatever works in Webkit/Firefox will pretty much work every time in IE8+

So this tells me that explicitly testing in IE8+ is a waste of time, then.
Cyberpunk would be an example of that.
cool...more get rich quick schemes!
I don't see the word "broken" (needs to be fixed) as a synonym for "totaled" (needs to be replaced), but if it makes you happy, we can use the word "reform".

Since you keep conveniently missing my point about doing what you can within a system that you recognize needs reform, I'm forced to assume my original assumption was correct as well, since the only point you seem to disagree with me on is the issue of copylefting ('And yet it restricts my freedom to do what I wish with derivatives.').
So you'd criticize him for speaking against any limits?
oh come on. the person you were chatting to (working hard to raise the level of conversation) even called you (or whoever used the expression) out on it, asking why it was "lame" (their quotes, in the reply).
i.e. Tons of unused labor at cheap prices.
I guess people can be very different in this respect. I really need the full number (or at least all of the numbers in the same unit) to be displayed. I don't find the 'human' format helpful at all when looking at ls output.
The things that bother me most when thinking about writing are the facts that while writing about myself I won't be writing about anything particularly exciting for anyone. If writing about another subject I won't be writing anything better than what you can already find on any given book written by an expert. So what does one write about?

I try to fight this and I manage to write something once in a while, but I can't help but feel like I'm "cheating" the reader by wasting their time reading me. What is a good way to fight this feeling, other than forcing myself to post on a blog occasionally?
He had a personal wiki.

EDIT: and since I'm on it, those who use Tomboy in that capacity will be probably happy to hear that Tomdroid[1] — a Tomboy client for Android with synchronization through Ubuntu One — finally can not only view notes but also edit them and sync back. Not the version from the Play Store yet but the beta with all the new features is available as .apk from their Launchpad website.

[1] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid
Former IGN president joins ouya
Show HN: City Guide on mobile
> Intel has the never-going-to-cease-to-exist high performance server and workstation market.

You haven't been an advisor to AMD by any chance?
The significant substantive differences, to me as a reader, are:

- You don't make final-sounding judgments like "never" or "non-starter" that preemptively reject any future evolution of the technology.

- Your criticisms are highly pragmatic and specific, such that it is clear what hurdles the technology would have to clear to address them, and you don't close the door to the idea that they could (even if it seems unlikely to you).

- You don't fall back on ideological arguments like native code as a "social ill" that would suggest that your true objections run deeper than what any technical improvements could possibly address.

Thank you for that.
Most annoying is that gcc warns about perfectly valid and logical code. That causes people to ignore warnings, and before you know it, you have a piece of software that has more warnings than lines of code.

Alternatively, when you cleverly figure out how to work around the warning, like the author does, you now prevent that rule from triggering even when it's right. Clearly a better unit test is needed.
Hmmm - the sed code was written to give a working 1 line example with the answer- just an example, or else some people might consider that it could be high-end wizardy worthy of recompilation.

Instead of complaining about an obvious flaw in the example, maybe you could be more constructive and fix it.

Hints:

- if you want to pass other flags, make it a function and use $@

- if you want to respect the filenames and dates, either fix the regex or write it in perl.

Shouldn't take you long - back from 1999 in perl FAQ:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=653

But now it's qualifies as hacking. I guess that's due to inflation.

This is so not hacker news.

Ask a perl golfer to make you a one-liner you can copy-paste in your profile if you absolutely need some working code.
Hayek doesn't fit in well with most Libertarians nowadays. From his "The Road to Serfdom":

There is no reason why, in a society which has
reached the general level of wealth ours has, the
first kind of security should not be guaranteed to
all without endangering general freedom; that is:
some minimum of food, shelter and clothing,
sufficient to preserve health. Nor is there any
reason why the state should not help to organize a
comprehensive system of social insurance in
providing for those common hazards of life against
which few can make adequate provision.

and

Where, as in the case of sickness and accident,
neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the
efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule
weakened by the provision of assistance – where,
in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks –
the case for the state’s helping to organize a
comprehensive system of social insurance is very
strong. There are many points of detail where those
wishing to preserve the competitive system and those
wishing to super-cede it by something different will
disagree on the details of such schemes; and it is
possible under the name of social insurance to
introduce measures which tend to make competition
more or less ineffective. But there is no
incompatability in principle between the state’s
providing greater security in this way and the
preservation of individual freedom.

To the same category belongs also the increase of
security through the state’s rendering assistance
to the victims of such ‘acts of God’ as
earthquakes and floods. Wherever communal action can
mitigate disasters against which the individual can
neither attempt to guard himself nor make provision
for the consequences, such communal action should
undoubtedly be taken.

Post that in many Libertarian forums nowadays and you'll be called a leftist or statist.
I'm sure they're profitable. People were pirating O'Reilly books long before "ebook" was even a word. Didn't stop the authors from being reasonably compensated.
how about two flexible strips of LEDs? one wraps around the seatpost, the other around the stem. same overhead as front and rear lights, but you can easily see them from the sides.
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Managing your VPS – Ajenti to the rescue
Postmates - for anything - and Instacart - for groceries - are fixing this problem.
There are also public instances[1] such as gobblin.se[2] which i own and administrate (beware of bugs, gobblin.se is tracking git master which means it is very bleeding edge).

[1]: http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Live_instances

[2]: http://gobblin.se
Imagine if all UNIX users had taken this approach - making modifications to suit their own tastes, and writing a public diary entry, instead of making their own changes _and_ then trying to get them into the source tree so every UNIX user has them by default, regardless of whether they need/want them? Oh well. Too late now. (There are still people trying to add their own personalized features into UNIX source distributions... watch out for them.)

There is something very appealing about having these utilities be simple enough that you can quickly hack them to add some feature that you might need. They are arguably much more useful as basic building blocks than as complex programs that purport to handle any task.

When they start to become complex, with many features (cat -v?), that simple quick and dirty hacking, adding a little ad hoc feature, becomes more involved. Who knows, by the time you finish, you may want it added to the base system for everyone, to justify the time you spent! (I'm guessing here. I honestly don't know why people try to push their added features into the base distributions of UNIX utilities that everyone must use.)
Your solution is the better one, but that does not take anything away from memset's argument, though... This is not about the solution. This is about the problem of having all these yaks to shave just to add a comma to some program's output.
Show HN: A habit tracking app for Android
Star Wars happened "a long time ago."
Continental also makes bike tires with reflective strips on the side. I got this shiny one: http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/de/en/continental/...

It easily dismisses the need for the nori lights however good lookin those are.
Imagine both solutions at night in 50m distance. In which case can you identify that the light source comes from a bicycle?

The nori lights while novel make it immediately obvious that you are looking at a bicycle and that allows others to take appropriate action.
What Feynman taught me about work
We are having this discussion because this particular book happened to make it to the HN front page. Everything you write would be equally valid justifications to buy every self-help or get-rich-quick book out there. In fact, that's one of the standard marketing tricks such ebooks employ: comparing the modest price of the ebook with the potential (typically best case) reward. There must be a name for this common fallacy but can't think of it off the top of my head.
Isn't the author saying this phenomenon is unique to Promoted Posts? I assume they've done giveaways before without the same reaction. He also says the accounts looked BOT-esque. I don't think the likes can totally be attributed to just freebie chasing. Could definitely be a factor, but Facebook has a disturbing history of click-fraud and this definitely still looks like that to me.
She studies how more students can learn Math better. Naturally underperforming students are a special interest.

There are a number of good books. If you are interested, I found Boaler, J. (2009) What’s Math Got To Do With It? How Parents and Teachers Can Help Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject. Penguin: New York to be thought-provoking (I teach math, although at a college level while this book is immediately about a high school level or lower).
I've had a personal wiki for about 7 years. The amount of knowledge in it is, by far, the most precious resource in my career.

It is tremendously useful ! http://www.monosapiens.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/dumble...

The only problem with it, is the frequent guilt I feel for now writing in it often enough.
Invite your readers to contact you and tell you what they liked.
Oh, so it's just like America.
If you look at the video you can see how the amount of black light in a given spot changes the brightness of that spot.
It could be cool to create different light patterns, changing the intensity of the leds with the speed of the bike.
The OS would be ready to fight on features, but not on audience- that's the problem. Anyone launching a new platform in today's mobile landscape needs to have significant aces up their sleeve. Though there's no guarantee of success, Microsoft pairing up their desktop and mobile offerings is one such way to increase your chances of breaking the market.

Nokia had no such benefits. It's very uncertain how they would manage to persuade people to make apps for their devices, and for customers to buy the phones.
I really liked that "section" -> "sub section" -> "paragraph" handling. Very unobstrusive. I am yet to study "contenteditable" but I'm glad it lets one designs such mechanisms. Kudos.
Now let's consider software lifecycle in a large context: longevity of forks.

If he doesn't send the changes off to upstream, and make a case good enough for them to be approved, then all this dooms him to maintaining his fork on all the platforms where he wants it until he gets sick of it or convinces someone else to do it for him.
I would call that the word size. The word would be 2 bytes of 8 bits each.
These sound like excellent pointers. Do you have such large needs because of the type of pages/apps you are serving (streaming, for instance, or heavy analytical processes in the ML), or simply because you have a helluva lot of users?
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I'd totally read Hellenistic steampunk. That's the culture that invented steam power (and fancy clockwork, see the Antikythera mechanism); it's pretty disappointing there's all this Victorian steampunk instead.

In the meantime: http://www.ams.org/notices/199805/review-graffi.pdf
Interesting. So it's a cheaper and lighter weight version of Unbounce. It definitely could be of use for super early stage startups.
He doesn't have to tell me to write, because I already write 500 words a day at this personal site: http://kibabase.com

It could be on any one of my essays, such as Book Reviews, Self Quantification, or Learning Principles. They are always work in progress, even if they stagnate at a certain size.

Moreover, a lot of my energy is spent on this page: http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts

Notes and Thoughts is my ever evolving bucket for all my random thoughts. With the exception of Why I Unlicense, all essays essentially originate from there. often as a one paragraph essay. It contains the most random idea, such as why democracy sucks, my plan for building a lamp bot, and the idea of legoization. Not only I add items, I also modify them to be readable writing. Even TODO items get revised.
EVERYTHING you post on Facebook is potentially public, so treat it as such. Facebook wipes your privacy settings with alarming frequency. You're one "forward" or "share" away from internet notoriety.

If you're afraid about your secrets getting out, encrypt them and don't let them leave your personal hard drive. Because, in accordance with Murphy's law, everything else will eventually become public.
Use C, Python is a scripting language.
Identifying parallelism is important, and the Flow project sounds cool. However it's by no means the only thing we have to do to solve the multicore conundrum. It turns out that there's a lot more to worry about in a cluster or a GPU than just the number and nature of their cores.
tldr: Ignore this article. It's 3+ years old and the marketplace has changed significantly. IE6 & 7 should no longer be on anyone's support matrix. IE8 is heading out, IE9 was really damn good, and IE10 (being released this month) is as fast or better than Chrome and has very good support for most html5 and js features. Basically, with IE10 Internet Explorer is going to be on par and perhaps even start pushing ahead of other browsers.

Lemme also say that I'm not a Windows user, Chrome is my fav, etc. But from the testing I've done and people I've talked to, that is what I base my assessment on.
No. Most countries rightfully regulate light sources on vehicles. That would only serve to irritate drivers, not warn them or make it easier to identify you.
Hmmm. I loaded "FireRed.GBA" then click "RESET" then clicked "Upload Savegame" — and got "FAILED".
Just curious, why did Maps make Android not an option? Samsung bundles their own apps with their skin of Android. Is there something that prevented Nokia from doing so too?

>there being even fewer 3rd-party apps today than Windows Phone went live with

Well that's just a silly comparison to make given that the Meego was pronounced dead before the N9 was even released.
Heh. Cyberpunk has always been about the future... It's just that we caught up.
I think Larry was being facetious, especially considering the context of the comment.
My understanding is that it would be true but for the fact that the longer those vectors get, the farther back in time they reach, and thus eventually reach into a time when stars did not exist and thus you hit the CMB instead. The stars you would have seen are in space that has moved away from us faster than c.

My understanding is that the universe is believed to be literally infinite in the three spatial dimensions that are familiar to us, and that its mass is also believed to be infinite. It really blows the mind.

Disclaimer: I'm a programmer not a physicist. :-)

EDIT: I did a little more reading on this. Answers are all over the place. But from what I can make out of the most recent sources, it seems that modern models treat the universe "as if" it were infinite although there is no way to know whether it is or not.
I seem to remember a service just like this on HackerNews about 6 months ago. I search hnsearch.com but couldn't find it, that said there seems to be a ton of advice on increasing landing page conversion (page 2, 3, etc..)

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=lan...
Put news.ycombinator.com in your /etc/hosts file, pointing to 127.0.0.1